From: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>,
Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
Subject: [PATCH 6/6] Add documentation for --window-memory, pack.windowMemory
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:55:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11842449521427-git-send-email-bdowning@lavos.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184244952554-git-send-email-bdowning@lavos.net>
Signed-off-by: Brian Downing <bdowning@lavos.net>
---
Documentation/config.txt | 6 ++++++
Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt | 11 +++++++++++
Documentation/git-repack.txt | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 4b67f0a..11b3321 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -589,6 +589,12 @@ pack.depth::
The maximum delta depth used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
+pack.windowMemory::
+ The window memory size limit used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1]
+ when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
+ suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no
+ limit.
+
pack.compression::
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
diff --git a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
index e3549b5..6f17cff 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-pack-objects.txt
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ base-name::
times to get to the necessary object.
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
+--window-memory=[N]::
+ This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
+ the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
+ up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in
+ repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
+ out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
+ advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The
+ size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
+ `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
+ default.
+
--max-pack-size=<n>::
Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
If specified, multiple packfiles may be created.
diff --git a/Documentation/git-repack.txt b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
index 2894939..5283ef8 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-repack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-repack.txt
@@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ OPTIONS
to be applied that many times to get to the necessary object.
The default value for --window is 10 and --depth is 50.
+--window-memory=[N]::
+ This option provides an additional limit on top of `--window`;
+ the window size will dynamically scale down so as to not take
+ up more than N bytes in memory. This is useful in
+ repositories with a mix of large and small objects to not run
+ out of memory with a large window, but still be able to take
+ advantage of the large window for the smaller objects. The
+ size can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
+ `--window-memory=0` makes memory usage unlimited, which is the
+ default.
+
--max-pack-size=<n>::
Maximum size of each output packfile, expressed in MiB.
If specified, multiple packfiles may be created.
--
1.5.2.GIT
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-12 12:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-12 12:55 [PATCH 0/6] Pack window memory limit, take 2 Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 1/6] Don't try to delta if target is much smaller than source Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 2/6] Support fetching the memory usage of a delta index Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] Add functions for parsing integers with size suffixes Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-07-12 13:32 ` [PATCH] " Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 4/6] Add pack-objects window memory usage limit Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:04 ` Brian Downing
2007-07-12 13:07 ` [PATCH] " Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` [PATCH 5/6] Add --window-memory option to git-repack Brian Downing
2007-07-12 12:55 ` Brian Downing [this message]
2007-07-12 15:46 ` [PATCH 0/6] Pack window memory limit, take 2 Nicolas Pitre
2007-07-13 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
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